The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

"Daughter, daughter—" Master Hong Er called vaguely but sincerely, stroking the back of the person in his arms with his hand from time to time.

Meng Shi, who was tightly hugged by Miss Hong, endured Master Hong's touch on her back like being licked by a tiger, and the tip of her nose vaguely smelled the bloody smell of Master Hong's fingertips.

"Why is this?" Meng thought with tears in her eyes, wishing she could die immediately and not face the future.

Facing the pale Meng family, Miss Hong showed a slight sly look, then changed her expression again, pushed Er Master Hong hard, and said anxiously: "Father, you also hugged Mrs. Meng. "

After Mr. Hong went crazy, he stared blankly at the two people in his arms.

Kou Guancai was also staggered by Mr. Hong Er, and now he stood still, saw the two women in Mr. Hong's long arms, turned around slightly, and saw that Meng's face was full of begging for death. She is in a bad mood, although the Meng family has two points of color in her heart for Jia Lian, but she is a good girl after all, how can she resist Master Hong's embrace like this?

"Second Master, be careful with your hands." The long attendants woke up and came forward to tug.

"Father, let go." Miss Hong persuaded softly, and when Master Hong finally let go, she first looked at Master Hong's fingers distressedly, and then persuaded Mrs. Meng: "Madam, you should be treated by a Give the child a hug, it's okay..."

With a pale face, Meng stood in a daze, staring blankly at Miss Hong holding Master Hong's finger and blowing gently, thinking how could he offend her?Then I thought it was a pity that when I was talking to others on weekdays, it was very pitiful for Miss Hong to be tied to Master Hong Er all her life. I didn't want to think that Miss Hong used Master Hong Er like a vicious dog.But, where did I offend her?

"Second Master Lian."

Suddenly, Mrs. Meng heard the sound of the handsome brother who came with the Hong family, so she hurried to look. Sure enough, she saw Jia Lian wearing emerald green robes, dark blue trousers, and black official boots hurrying over, "Master Jia..."

"Second Master Lian!" Miss Hong said anxiously, "Second Master Lian, Daddy hurt his finger again, after returning home, my lord asked..."

"It's the girl who caused the trouble! It has nothing to do with us." The long followers took the lead in filing a complaint because Master Hong Er didn't understand human language and didn't know how to protect Miss Hong.

"Understood, let's go to the yamen and show the second master's fingers first." Jia Lian said, and then asked Zhao Tianliang and others who he had brought to help the second master Hong to go quickly.

"Lord Jia..." Meng called again softly on her lips, and seeing that Miss Hong never left Jia Lian's eyes since Jia Lian came, she immediately understood where this innocent disaster of hers came from.

"Mrs. Meng."

Meng Shi trembled in fright at the soft voice.

"Just treat it like being hugged by a child. Don't take it to your heart." Miss Hong frowned, and told Mrs. Meng again. How Meng Shi took care of her and how she was caught off guard by Master Hong Er hugged her.

Meng Shi only felt that she would have no face to see people in the future, and she watched Jia Lian lead Master Hong and others with a mournful face, and went back to the room, thinking that today's incident would spread widely, she was not Miss Hong who was disregarding face, this How will I meet people in the future?Just as she had originally thought, when she met Jia Lian, the two of them developed some friendship, and she was willing to bring the Meng family's belongings into her mansion as a side room; He ordered the servant girl to step back and looked for a belt to hang herself. Unexpectedly, she picked out a bright red belt embroidered with peach blossoms in the cabinet, and then heard that the housekeeper's daughter-in-law Yuanyang came over.

So Mrs. Meng hurriedly washed her face, arranged her clothes, and asked Yuanyang to sit down in the inner hall to talk.

This inverted hall is very simple, only tables and chairs are laid out, and there are no other decorations. Obviously, Meng Shi is afraid that her nephew will steal her money, so it is intentional.

Mrs. Meng sat on a chair, waited a while, and saw Yuanyang coming in with a maid who held a lamp.

"I don't know why my sister-in-law is here now?" Mrs. Meng felt a little happy, thinking that Jia Lian fell in love with her when she saw her today.

Yuanyang smiled and said: "It's just a neighbor, come here and chat with your wife." Seeing that Meng's eyes were red and swollen, and her temple hair was messy, she probably guessed what happened to her before she came.

"Please sit down." Meng waved her hand, asking Yuanyang to sit beside her.

Yuanyang sat down sideways, and after sitting down, said softly: "Just now Kouguan said in front of my lord that he probably saw that Miss Hong leading Master Hong to hook the strings with his fingers..."

"Lord Jia really knows the truth," Meng said happily, "If Miss Hong hadn't hugged me today, I wouldn't have..." As she spoke, she began to cry again.

Yuanyang sighed softly: "It's not that my lord knows clearly, it's..." After thinking for a while, he opened his mouth again, "It's just that Miss Hong heard that Mrs. Lin from my family said that my old lady wanted to be my second master's roommate. I was afraid that she would misunderstand that I was a person who was greedy for wealth and honor and was willing to be a minor for others, so I hurriedly said that I rejected the second master that day. Who knows, the way Miss Hong looked at me I'm not afraid of my wife's jokes. When I was in the Rongguo Mansion in the capital, every time someone mentioned that I would rather marry a young servant than be with the second master, some people admired me for my integrity. It's hard for a few people to say that I don't know good and bad, yes So, I'm thinking about it, then Miss Hong might be out of her mind."

Meng's face was burning red, thinking about the meaning of her willingness to be a small person, and everyone in the next door knew it, so she lowered her head and said: "I also admire the backbone that would rather be broken than whole, it's just me and You are not ordinary... If you keep such a sum of money, if you don't find someone to rely on, you don't know what will happen in the future."

"I don't mean to despise my wife's boasting. Here, firstly, I want to verify it, and secondly, I want to persuade my wife to open it. It's best... to move out overnight."

"Moving away overnight? I am a woman, where will I move to?" Meng said in surprise and disappointment, and shed tears again thinking about it.

Yuanyang said: "Move the tree to die, and move people to live. My wife lives next to the second master. Since Miss Hong has come out like this today, I'm afraid there will be something later. Master Hong is a fool, who knows what a fool will do ? If... In short, my wife will listen to the second master and move overnight."

"Is it really Master Jia's words?" Meng said.

Yuanyang nodded hurriedly.

Meng laughed through tears, swore and swore: "Thank Master Jia for his kindness on my behalf. From now on, I will change my mind and take good care of my son as a widow, and never..."

"Don't talk about that, our second master is not a pedantic person, whether you remarry or not has nothing to do with him." Yuanyang laughed.

Mrs. Meng nodded again and again, regretting that she could not make a marriage with Jia Lian, and said: "Then Miss Hong treats Mr. Hong Er like a vicious dog. You must ask Master Jia to be careful about her." I want to find some money and ask Yuanyang to transfer it to Jia Lian. Seeing that Yuanyang refuses to accept it, I have to give up.When the mandarin ducks left, they didn't bother to explain to the people in the house, they just sorted out some gold and silver, sealed the silk clothes and big things in boxes, and left here overnight with their adoptive son, and went to relatives and friends in other places.

After the night was calm, Meng's nephew came to the door the next day to make a fuss. At noon, people from the governor's mansion came to look for Meng, but they couldn't find Meng, and asked the magistrate's yamen. Zhao Tianliang was leaning against the gate of the yamen. The stone lion stood there, exchanged a few words with the man, and then went straight to the rear office.

In the back yamen, Jia Lian, who had just been promoted, was wearing an official cap and gown, and was sitting solemnly in the Nuan Pavilion reading the pleadings. When he saw Zhao Tianliang coming, he smiled and said, "Sure enough, Hong Helong sent someone to the capital?"

"Exactly." Zhao Tianliang said with a worried face, "If he sent a letter to confront Prince Zhongshun, wouldn't he have revealed his stuff?"

"Fool, how far is the capital from here, every time I go back and forth, the day lily will be cold."

"What does Governor Hong mean?" Zhao Tianliang was puzzled.

"Naturally, we want to test Guan Kou to see if he will show his weakness. Even if he sends people to the capital, it may not be because of firearms." Jia Lian said firmly.

Zhao Tianliang slapped his head, and said in a panic: "I'm afraid Kou Guan has no idea, shows timidity, and makes Governor Hong see the flaw."

Jia Lian said with a smile: "That's right, I just reminded him quietly yesterday that no matter what happens, he must be calm and calm, and not be tempted by Hong and Long to look strange."

Zhao Tianliang nodded, and said again: "If the money is sent to the Governor's Mansion, and Governor Hong doesn't hand over the money to Kou Guan and send someone to Jinling, then he hasn't believed him yet." The Meng family took a look and said, "It's a good thing Mrs. Meng is gone, otherwise, I would really be invited by the Hong family to teach the second master Hong the piano art." I feel that such a woman who no one cares about and teaches, how can she have any kind of heart, now seeing that stupid Hong Er Master wants to learn the piano, she knows that someone has instigated him, this person must be with Hong Er Master Miss Hong who never left her.

Jia Lian sighed, "It's okay to call Yuanyang out of the yard, and when I see Miss Hong, I also stay away from her."

Zhao Tianliang wanted to say that Yuanyang and Jia Lian were innocent before, but also thought that Jia Lian and the Meng family were not so bad, so the Meng family suffered the same disaster, so he agreed, and then said with concern: "What will the second master do to Miss Hong? This woman is too cruel and merciless, not a good friend."

Holding the pleading paper in Jia Lian's hand, he thought of Xu Qingheng rarely, and sighed that he only found Xu Qingheng difficult to deal with. Compared with this Miss Hong, Xu Qingheng's pure heart is really touching.

"...Second Master, why not make a fool of yourself with her? Then Master Hong has no brains. If Second Master cares about him, if he hurts him, he will offend Governor Hong. If you don't care about him, I'm afraid you will suffer." Zhao Tianliang was worried. To be honest, when it comes to the women who pestered Jia Lian, even Wang Xifeng and Fang Wenhui are still afraid of people's words and have scruples; this Miss Hong is so unscrupulous, it is really difficult for people to deal with.

Jia Lian frowned, then shook his head, "Be cautious."

Zhao Tianliang couldn't help laughing, before he was about to speak, he saw Quan Fulai and said, "Second Master, Hong Er Master brought Miss Hong to the Yamen, and now Hong Er Master is sitting on Er Master's chair, and is asking his parents to dance with us Great."

"Second Master Hong is pulling Miss Hong? When you look at the person leading the dog, does he walk ahead of the dog or behind it?" Jia Lian laughed.

All blessings are silent.

"Just ask people to look at Master Hong Er carefully, don't hurt him. If someone asks me, just say that I am reading official documents."

"Second Lord is smart, so that way, that wild girl probably won't bother Second Master." Zhao Tianliang patted the horse on the spot, and then hurriedly led a group of people to the front lobby to watch.

In the lobby ahead, a group of yamen servants accompanied the second master Hong to play the game of promotion. Miss Hong looked left and right, as if she was waiting for Jia Lian to come out.

Seeing Zhao Tianliang coming out of the back hall, he smiled and asked, "Where is Second Master Lian?"

"Second Master Lian is reading the official documents." Zhao Tianliang said.

Miss Hong laughed and said, "Second Master Lian is really a good official." After a pause, she wondered where the woman from the Meng family had the courage to move overnight, and asked tentatively, "Why did Mrs. Meng leave overnight? I don’t know if they are orphans or widows, where can they go?”

Zhao Tianliang smiled and said, "We don't know about that."

Miss Hong sighed: "I'm afraid she was scared by her father yesterday. She is a spoiled daughter of a good family, she can't compare to me..." As she spoke, she shed tears.

Zhao Tianliang persuaded in a panic: "Why do you think so, girl? Girl also..." When he wanted to persuade her, he thought that she didn't even have a name, so he didn't know where to persuade her.

After Miss Hong shed tears, she waited for a while, and saw Master Hong sitting on a chair dozing off, she smiled softly and said, "Father looks like this, if he wears an official hat, he really looks like a high-ranking official." After finishing speaking, he carefully took the handkerchief to wipe the saliva dripping from Master Hong's mouth.

With this movement, Second Master Hong woke up in a trance, then got up from the chair, shouting his hat, and dragged Miss Hong to the back office.

"Hey, Daddy, don't disturb Mr. Jia's business." Miss Hong straightened her body backwards vigorously, and was dragged forward in a chaotic pace.

Zhao Tianliang groaned in his heart, thinking that he overestimated the upbringing of this wild girl, so he hurriedly followed, seeing that the chief follower of the Hong mansion was going to be lazy and hide in the lobby and not follow him, lest the second master Hong would fall under the nose of the Jia family When something happened under the house, he repeatedly urged the Chief Hong to follow him: "Brothers, hurry up and follow. If something happens, how will you explain it to Lord Hong?"

The head of the Hong family lazily said: "If my brother is afraid, and if something happens, the girl will be responsible for it. If she hadn't taken a fancy to the second master of your mansion, why would the second master come to play here?"

Zhao Tianliang choked, and urged him a few more times, at least he urged some of the Hong family's senior attendants to enter the back office together. When they arrived, he saw the second master Hong drooling stupidly, with his head cocked upside down. Wearing Jia Lian's official hat, holding the file in his hand, tilting his head to look at it; looking at Jia Lian again, he didn't look at Miss Hong, but only looked at Master Hong with his hands in his sleeves and a smile on his lips; He stared at Jia Lian intently, but only said some words, please forgive me, Mr. Jia.

Zhao Tianliang thought to himself that if Miss Hong had a mother above her, how would she be punished?

"Lord Jia, what is this character?" Miss Hong pointed to the small cursive characters written on the blue and white porcelain brush washer on the desk, "I seem to have seen it on the door curtain at home, but I don't know what it is."

"It's the character for money." Jia Lian turned his head from Master Hong Er, recognized the characters, and saw that Master Hong Er was very naive, so he waved to him, took a handkerchief and wiped the corners of his mouth, and then He said to him very patiently: "Second Master, follow me to learn, 'A gentleman loves money and obtains it in a proper way'."

Although there are countless people serving Mr. Hong Er, since he was a child, everyone saw that he was stupid and difficult to speak, so they just let him have a good life and clean up the mess for him. They didn't teach him how to speak, write, etc., and no one After thinking about it, now that Master Hong heard what Jia Lian said, he opened his mouth and couldn't make a sound, so he looked at Miss Hong.

Miss Hong stood next to the book case, counted the words Jia Lian said, and they were exactly the words written on the pen, and said with a smile: "Master Jia, my father can't learn this, why don't you teach me, Mr. Jia? After I go back, I will teach my father slowly. Speaking of which... I don't even have a name. Since Mr. Jia is literate, why don't you give me a name..."

"Speaking of which, a gentleman loves money in a proper way." Jia Lian still looked at the second master Hong gently, and seeing that the second master Hong was still looking at Miss Hong, he gently turned his face away with his hand.

Master Hong Er vaguely understood that Jia Lian was asking him to talk to him, but he was so old that he only knew some words that he heard every day, so he tried to learn them all of a sudden, but couldn't understand them; since he didn't understand, he couldn't help Going crazy, so both hands suddenly grabbed Jia Lian's face.

"Second Master, be careful." Zhao Tianliang called out hastily.

"Lord Jia." Miss Hong also called out.

Jia Lian quickly grasped Master Hong's two thick wrists, and said with a smile, "A gentleman loves money in a proper way."

Miss Hong pursed her lips tightly. Seeing Jia Lian and the second master Hong in a stalemate, she thought about Jia Lian's younger brother, and she was afraid that the name given to the maidservant at home would be a hundred if not eighty. She also refused to give her a nonsense name; since he looked down on her so much, she waited for Master Hong to choke his neck, and then rescued him. In this way, he owed her a favor.As he was thinking about it, he heard a vague "gentleman" in his ears, and his heart skipped a beat. When he looked again, he saw that Master Hong's stiff arms had already softened.

"A gentleman loves money in a proper way." Jia Lian looked at Master Hong encouragingly and said it again.

Encouraged, Second Master Hong smiled foolishly, and repeated the word "junzi" again. After Jia Lian repeated that sentence no less than a hundred times, Second Master Hong was able to say the words vaguely and completely. Out.

"Second Master is really smart." Jia Lian praised, and then said to Zhao Tianliang: "Go and get the second master's favorite snacks."

Zhao Tianliang was confused and wondered to himself, what kind of snacks does Master Hong like?Then he wanted to bring some snacks here, so he left the back office and asked someone to bring a plate of chicken oil snacks in the back hall. Seeing Jia Lian holding the snacks and coaxing and boasting, he persuaded Mr. Hong to be happy happily ate a plate.

"It's getting late, get off the sedan chair and send the Second Master back to the Governor's Mansion." Jia Lian wiped the corners of Hong Second Master's mouth with a handkerchief, and then instructed Zhao Tianliang.

Zhao Tianliang hurriedly agreed, ordered people to prepare the sedan chair, and personally sent Mr. Hong, Miss Hong and the four elders to the gate of the yamen. Miss Hong who was beside the sedan chair was in a trance, she felt amused in her heart, she secretly thought that she was looking at Second Master Hong, because she was also looking at Second Master Hong so well, and wanted to snatch Second Master Hong with Miss Hong.

Zhao Tianliang kept sending Master Hong Er to the front yard of the governor's mansion, and after explaining to the housekeeper what Hong Er Master played and ate, he led the sedan chair again.

However, as soon as Zhao Tianliang left, the second master Hong finally learned a word, so he was anxious to show off to Hong Helong, so he immediately dragged Miss Hong to Hong Helong's study.

Miss Hong still gently pinched Master Hong's palm as before, but seeing that Master Hong didn't stop following her wishes like in the past, the alarm sounded in her heart, and she no longer cared about being infatuated with Jia Lian. It turned out that although she hated Master Hong Er in her heart for ruining her life so that she would not be able to marry a husband and raise children like an ordinary woman in this life, she also clearly understood that if she could no longer "control" Hong Er My lord, I can't even survive this lingering life.

When Miss Hong's thoughts turned rapidly, the Second Master Hong had already walked into Hong Helong's study clumsily and vigorously.

"A gentleman... A gentleman loves money, and he gets it in a proper way." Master Hong Er raised his chest and raised his head, his voice was as authentic as Hong Zhong.

Hong Helong, who was wiping his sword with a silk scarf in the study, was taken aback. With a flick of the sword, a hole was wiped out in his jaws.

Hong Helong shook his injured hand and thought suspiciously: Was it really his second brother who said it?So he said, "Say it again."

"A gentleman, a gentleman loves money and gets it in a proper way." Master Hong Er scratched his head and said it again with his chest straight.

It was the first time I heard my second younger brother say such a polite sentence, Hong Helong pressed the handkerchief against the tiger's mouth, and said happily with his beard and beard shaking: "That's right, my family and Chang can also say such a great truth. Come here, hurry up and ask the wife to set up the incense table, I want to tell the old lady of Quanxia about this matter."

Seeing that Hong and Long were overjoyed, Master Hong raised his head and learned these words more and more diligently.

"...My lord, this was taught by Lian Erye." Miss Hong secretly glanced at Hong and Long.

Hong Helong was afraid that the sword would hurt Master Hong Er, so he tied the sword high on the shelf on the wall, and said with a sneer, "Sure enough, he regards himself as a member of Jia's family. With just one word, I will do it for him." Credit."

"Your Excellency, don't you think there are some overtones in these words?" Miss Hong hesitated.

Hong Helong paused, then turned their heads to stare at the timid Miss Hong, "You also know the word "overtones?"

Miss Hong ignored Hong Helong's ridicule, and weighed her infatuation with Jia Lian against the benefits of controlling Master Hong Er, and immediately chose the latter, "Although I haven't studied, I also know that this is not a good thing to say. ...going over today, listening to people in Jia's family talking about our house."

Three years in Qingzhi County, one hundred thousand snowflake silver.

Hong Helong has been in Guangdong for several years, and he has already earned millions of dollars, so the matter is something that everyone knows in the officialdom, and he usually doesn't take it to heart. Having said that, I remembered that Jia Lian was not very respectful to him before—otherwise, he would not even accept such a small favor from Miss Hong—corruption and breaking the law is a thing, and being ridiculed, especially teaching It's another thing for a stupid younger brother who doesn't understand human language to sneer and sneer, so Hong Helong immediately became angry. Hearing that Master Hong was still shouting, he angrily said: "Shut up."

Master Hong Er trembled in fright, and immediately hid behind Miss Hong.

Miss Hong took her hand and gently stroked Master Hong who was bent over, and then watched coldly to see how Hong and Longdai would deal with Jia Lian.

"...Did you hear what the Jia family said?" Hong Helong walked around the room with his hands behind his back, panting heavily, feeling that the veil on the tiger's mouth was in the way, and threw the veil aside.

Everyone knows that Miss Hong has no one to teach her. Since she was young, she has been messing around with Master Hong Er, so she is as cowardly and stupid as Master Hong Er, but they don't know that after she learned to control Master Hong Er without a teacher since she was a child, her mind became flexible. Get up, otherwise, where did she hear that Meng Shi was interested in Jia Lian?Now when I heard Hong Helong's question, I hesitated for a while, and thought that Hong Helong was such a senior official, and everyone who came and went would flatter him, so I said: "I didn't hear what I said clearly, but it seems that I came to our house only when I heard it was mentioned. brother."

Hong Helong's eyebrows jumped, and his hands behind his back couldn't help clenching his fists. The secret actor was really unreliable, and he dared to tell the outside world what he had done for the prince. He waved his hand and said to Miss Hong: "It's a good thing you paid for it." You have to clear the inside and outside, and lead the second master out! Jia Lian's side...you can do it yourself, and the second master doesn't have to go." After a pause, he said, "When I saw Jia Lian, I calmed down and took good care of the second master. Master, if you let me know that the second master has been wronged..." He looked at Miss Hong threateningly, but saw that Miss Hong shrank her head, but the second master Hong was more frightened than Miss Hong, and actually dragged Miss Hong to want to run away immediately. go outside.

"Hey!" Hong Helong sighed impatiently, waved his hand again, and ordered Miss Hong to lead Master Hong back out.

After a while in the study, Hong Helong thought that since Guan Kou dared to flaunt his tongue to Jia Lian, it means that the sale of fanzi firearms was indeed true, so there is no need to be suspicious of Kou Guan; It's not appropriate to ask Kou Guan to come to the prince to tell the truth, so that he and the loyal prince will have a rift; in this case, Kou official should be let go, and Jia Lian is good at teaching him a lesson.

But looking at the lessons in the world, there is no real reason to catch him.Since he dared to hide a needle in the cotton and ridicule him for taking money for no reason, he brought him in and asked Jia Lian to associate with Fanzi in a daze. Jia Lian was convicted of selling firearms overseas. How dare you call yourself "a gentleman loves money and gets it in a proper way" after he has it in his hand.